Thanks for all the suggestions guys! I'm sure a plan will surface and we are looking forward to some "us" time.

JPEE- I had to laugh when you mentioned scrabble! Last year when we were w/o power for 5 days we played a LOT of scrabble, mostly by candel light and it was great fun. Now since we got smart phones we are playing "Words with Friends" on the phones. Same as scrabble and still lots of fun! Great suggestion!

Hope you all have a relaxing weekend and find time for fun, family, and down time.

John,
That is awesome! That has great potential for aerial photography and video. Very cool find and thanks for sharing! My vid tonight was to test the Canon elph100 at 720i that my wife got me for Christmas and it just doesn't look like the vids from the GoPro. Imagine a GoPro slung from your 500 with your camera rig design with this gyro system.

Hi BOBs. Been so busy this spring and it is already summer!! WTH happened? LOL. Have not flown much as I have been so busy with the car stuff. Now that it is slowing down, I am finding time to get out. Nica and I got out to the park today and I buddy boxed her on and F-22. This was her very first time flying RC and has had just possibly three times on the simulator. She did great. Eight packs and we came home relatively unscathed.

Today was Chaz's graduation party and everything went very well. I'm guessing that about 80 people showed up. Family, friends and some of the local farmers (friends). You have to remember that Leslie lives in the country and the funny thing is, at least for a city boy like myself. Some of the folks drove over in their farm trucks, some ATV's and one in an gas powered golf cart. One of their farmer friends looks like Randy Quaid (the actor) with a mustache and beard. Shaking hands with him was like shaking hands with a hunk of steel. Lmao.

Here's a picture of my granddaughters on the neighbors donkey.
That's Kayle (14 yo) in the red sweat shirt and Katy (11 yo) on the back. The girl on the ground is the neighbor kid.

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You sure haven't lost your touch, excellent flying as usual. I love the T-shirt, I couldn't read it all but it's to cool. "Tree Huggin is okay... As long as your climbing up to ??? Deer Stand.." And the smile on your face at the end, shows you were very pleased with your flight.

JPee,
Cool video on the Align gizmo, if the price is right I could see alot of people getting one. It would be an excellent platform for FPV, photo and movie shots. It may have help your buddy that recently crashed his 700 too. Just flip the switch and it self stabilizes (right side up too). Hah! It also, seems like it's much more stable than some of the earlier models from other vendors.

Vic,
Been busy around the house and helping Leslie set things up with the graduation. I'm pretty much free starting Monday, I'll download the lastest Phoenix and see what's up.
Thanks for the heads up.

Ivan...very cool she's flying. I got my grand daughter (11yo) flying the gasser cub on the simulator. Trying to teach her NOT to be heavy handed on the controls and do a smooth scale like flight. ONCE I get her to land the cub on the sim every time with no problems....I'm buying her an electric cub....that will be a done deal. As far as spring goes...it's been a fairly crappy spring up here and I'm glad we'll be hitting summer temps soon.

Dave...looks like the kids had a BALL and that's cool. I think I've rode a donkey a couple times when I was their age. I know the donkey was more cool about riding than the HORSES were. I even rode a flipp'in cow when I was young. Farm life has it's good points but it's labor intensive keeping all the animals happy, clean, and fed. Lets put it this way....I've shoveled enough manure in my day to be sure.

Took the grandson out fishing on the 25th which is the day before bass season opens. Thought I'd be getting into some bluegill...yeah right. I caught a HUGE large mouth bass, and a really good sized rock bass and had to immediately release them (out of season). Both fish were monsters and legal in size by a long shot, just a day early. After the weather settles a bit here, it's #2 grand daughters turn to go out fishing with me. I'm taking her to the place where I caught that 33" pike a couple years ago. Pike is white and flakey and if you dress it right, minimal bones to contend with.